Yaro Starak wrote a great post listing the 10 tactics to make your blog stand out.
Yaro know a lot about that because he teaches how to build a profitable blog. You will need to start a blog and be consistent. You will also need to build a foundation of articles (or posts) that will be sticky and ever green. Then you launch your blog and start promoting with various methods like commenting on other people’s blogs, twitter marketing, video marketing and more.
I have my own experience with blogs especially www.thedailymac.com and i posted daily there but i was not passionate about that topic and abandoned it.
Leason learned, follow your passion and you will be on the right path.
I will leave you with Yaro’s post about 10 tactics to make your blog stand out